Why YA? It's a question many writers working in the genre of Young Adult literature have had to contend with. ...
By Andrea Belcham
Interviews
"It's strange talking about yourself," says Neil Smith as we sit down in Mile End's Arts Cafe to talk about him. ...
By Ian McGillis
Missing the Ark represents a return to beginnings for the Mile End-based writer and spoken-word artist ...
By Andrea Belcham
"Why not?"
A dangerous question, glimmering with risk and possibility, but one Montreal novelist Anita Rau ...
By Ami Sands Brodoff
DeNiro's Game, Montreal author Rawi Hage's debut novel about a young man yearning to escape war-torn ...
By Faustus Salvador
It's a drizzly Thursday night on St-Laurent, that great boulevard where all that is Montreal collides and ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
"Post-prairie poet" is an appealing phrase, one that could become fashionable in years to come, and yet it's ...
By Faustus Salvador
For the past decade or so, I've been sharing my deep, dark secret with students across the country: I hated poetry ...
By Carolyn Marie Souaid
Robert Allen is a formidable figure in Canadian literature. A poet and novelist, he is also editor of ...
By Bert Almon
In a recent mRb, you named Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music as your favourite Montreal book, saying ...
By Ian McGillis
"I was shy, inarticulate, not very forward, so writing was and is very liberating. And fun, so much fun." ...
By Ian McGillis
Who hasn't fantasized about dropping out of life for a while and assuming a new identity, or eavesdropping at your ...
By Tess Fragoulis